February, '14] OBITUARY 155 



The latter are the important issues from the scientific standpoint and 

 must ever form the basis of any satisfactory progress. Research work 

 must be available though not necessarily in the hands of everyone. 

 Adjustments in dissemination may be advisable as well as in presen- 

 tation. 



Obituary 



EDWIN ALONZO POPENOE 



Professor Edwin Alonzo Popenoe, A. M., for many years pro- 

 fessor o£ entomology in the Kansas State Agricultural College at 

 Manhattan, and entomologist of the Station, died in November, 1913. 



Professor Popenoe was born July 1, 1855. He was the first professor 

 of entomology at the Kansas Agricultural College and was made ento- 

 mologist with the establishment of the Station by the Hatch Act 

 in 1887. For several years the chairs in entomology and horticulture 

 were combined, but later were separated and Professor Popenoe was 

 continued as Professor of Entomology. He was a man of quiet and 

 retiring disposition, a great reader, and well posted on many subjects, 

 and was loved by his students and friends. 



When he retired from active teaching, al)out six years ago, he 

 purchased a fine farm five miles south of Topeka where he raised 

 many flowers, specializing in iris and peonies. 



Professor Popenoe married Miss Flora Hyde who died in the eighties. 

 He afterwards married Carrie Holcomb, who with four sons, survive 

 him. Charles H., is in the Bureau of Entomology, Division of Truck 

 Crops and Stored Product Investigations; Hubert teaches agriculture 

 in a Minnesota school; Edwin A., Jr., manages the home farm; Willis 

 P. is still a boy in school. 



Professor Popenoe was for many years a member of this Association. 

 .His death was said to be due to a clot of blood at the base of the 

 brain, the result of overstraining. 



W. E. B. 



ALFRED GOTTLIEB HAMMAR 



Alfred G. Hammar, entomological assistant of the Bureau of Ento- 

 mology of the United States Department of Agriculture, was acci- 

 dentally shot and instantly killed, while on a hunting trip near Roswell, 

 N. M., October 15, 1913. 



Mr. Hammar was born May 19, 1880, at Bromestad, Sweden. As 

 a boy he was much interested in natural history and at the age of 

 sixteen, full of desire to study first-hand the tropical fauna of which 



